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Do What You Wanna Do
03:57
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All your life, people telling you, “Don’t do that, do this”
As long as you don’t do harm to anyone
You do what you wanna do
I’m telling you, it’s alright
Nothing is impossible though it seems improbable
I give you a present
Inside is a key
The key you need to use only one time
It is the key to the present
It is the present
You got a policeman in your head
Kick him out!
Think back to when someone was telling you
You couldn’t do it, you’re no good
Kick ‘em out!
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Dream Creature
04:41
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Everybody
You are everything
You are everybody
You are everyone you will be
You are everyone you were
Take a look in the mirror
Say, “It’s nice to meet you”
You are the other too
You are the dream creature
Everybody take a look around you now
You are everybody
Everything is inside you
You are the wind, you are the Sun, and you are the rain
You are the one that comes together
You are here and you are thereabouts
You are the dream creature
You’re the cook who cooks the books
You’re the boy and the girl
Who gives the world a big stir
You’re the Moon and the Milky Way
You are the dream creature
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Strumming
02:35
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I love to hear you strum away
That’s the way I like to spend my day
And if a love song should appear
That’s a happy bonus for my ear
Just me and you and the setting Sun
And the mountains are singing one by one
“No light without shadow
And no shadow without light”
The purer the water the sweeter the song
I will hum and you will strum along
A love song
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The attraction is strangely irresistible
Like it comes from far away in time far away in space
You are falling in love with Love
It also is in the centre of your being
It’s nearer, nearer than near
You are falling in love with Love
It’s a spirit and it can be frightening
It can come with fear and trembling – but do not fear
You are falling in love with Love
It’s only Love at the door
Love crossing into your world
It is you that has been away
It is you that has been hiding
But you have a homing pigeon
In the centre of your heart
Brings you circling back
You are falling in love with Love
It’s not fear that you’re feeling
But the thrill of the roller coaster – drop down!
You are falling in love with Love
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Switch Off And Boogie
02:49
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Switch Off and Boogie
I used to be so uptight
Now everything is alright
I used to be so uncool
Now everything is outasight
Everything is alright
Switch Off and Boogie
This is my advice to you!
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It Is Good!
05:12
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Graphite pencil poised in the hand in the air
I will wallow in the coloured mud
It is Good!
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Sands of Time (Free Me)
04:35
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Counting out the sands of time
I will wait until you are mine
I will wait patiently
Counting raindrops in the sea
And if you stop just for a moment
And in that instant think of me
I will be there where you can find me
A frozen warrior encased in ice
And one gasp you can free me
Free me!
Melt the present of this patient prince
And with one breath you can revive me
And we will flow through sands of time
Sands of time don’t fill the space reserved for you
In this heart of mine
I am a speck of sand on this endless shore
But no Universe could love you more so
Free me!
I will wait for you in this place
Where every grain is your portrait
Free me!
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8. |
I Turn These Words
04:21
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I turn these words to water
Running liquid round the X-Ray of my hand
I turn these words to stone and jewels
I bury them deep in a distant land
I turn these words to water
I turn these words to stone
I turn these words
I turn these words to fire
To lick and spit and twist in the darkness folding
I turn these words to air
That sparkles in the sunlight golden
I turn these words to fire
I turn these words to air
I turn these words
It’s a shimmer or a shake or a glimmer on the pool
It’s a dog at the gate – it’s a Fool’s land to rule
It’s a screen in a field – it’s an insect in the night
In a sight, light, meteorite delight, alright
I turn these words to water
I turn these words to rock
I turn these words
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Sweet Angel Cake
03:21
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Little greedy grasping ghosts are grabbing everything and running all around in little cloaks
They don’t know that they are dead, folks, and old habits die hard
This ain’t no joke, they’re out of their holes and spooking up the town
Stealing your hard-earned stuff if you just for a second put it down.
Those little grasping ghosts are thieving rascals just like when they were around
Always on the take – always on the make
And some of them, look like other men or women walking round in the bright of day
They’re applying for and getting the top jobs by the way
They’re in the colleges, the government, business and the banks
Do you follow me? There’s hollow men ordering missiles, planes and tanks
To help them grab the moneybags and drag that swag and hoard it in the ground
When will the living folk wise up, it ain’t no joke we’re being outrun and overrun
By little greedy grasping ghosts.
So, here and now, I’m going to perform the ceremony to help them peacefully on their way, I will make a beautiful cake and leave it out in the sun and when those greedy grasping ghosts see it they are sure to steal a bite but it’s a magic cake and just one taste will send them to the Void where they belong. Empty to empty, hollow to the hole, everything is nothing and that’s where they do belong.
Let them be reborn in a form that will help them make amends some day
For the misery they’re causing you and me and our life-loving friends
Going round stealing from the needy and being greedy grasping from the poor
Is no way to be alive so let me show you the way that’s true leading you back through death’s door.
Come on, always on the take. Come on, always on the make. I am warning you. Whatever you do, don’t dare bite a slice of my sweet Angel Cake.
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10. |
Little Boy Blue
04:25
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Up the hill and down the dale
You can hear him singing to no avail
“I want sweet words to make my love happy”.
Never gets the words wrong
Because there’s only one line to his song
He’s out shopping for something to say to you
He’ll try anything
He’ll even sing
And the spirits of the air who love him dearly
Start to whisper in his ear
“You are the son of Pan, so you blow your horn”
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Boomerang Love
03:34
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The Sun is in the daffodils
The daffodils in the Sun
The birds is in the berries
The berries in the bird
The song is in his whistling
And his whistling in the song
When he sings it in the morning
The morning is in him
When I hear it in my heart
My heart is in it
Now I’m in the daffodils
And now I’m in the Sun
I am in the birdsong, the berries and the bird
I am made of light, I am made of music
I am made of light and I’m passing it along
You can give it away but it comes right back
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
You can give it away but you get it right back
Boom, boom, boom, Boomerang Love
And the more you give it away the more you have
Boom, boom, boom, Boomerang Love
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12. |
Go With The Flow
04:27
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And so I stand on tiptoe upon the edge of the ledge of the cliff
I spread and flex feathers and my wings of wax
The Sun is shining brightly; the winds blow up fresh from the ocean
With affection I remember the half-man, half-bull
With his sleeve of bees
You gotta go with the flow
He said, “Here’s to beauty, the mirror of Love,
In whatever form it may be found
Here’s to Love, the light of life,
In whatever form it may choose to move”
He said, “You gotta go with the flow”
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Musical Spirits
07:30
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Let your body disappear
Come and join us
Musical spirits
Musical spirits
Infect the world
Close your eyes now
Open up your ears
There is even here
But musical spirits far and near
Let your body disappear
Come and join us
Musical spirits
Come on, enjoy!
Whatever you want to do
Whatever you want to say
It’s alright with me every single day
It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s OK
Whatever you do is OK
Whatever you say is too
It’s alright, it’s alright
It is the Truth
Come and join us
Musical spirits.
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